Perhaps others who’ve watched the video might comment. I’m not a great video watcher. I rarely even watch TV anymore.
Open Thread – Mon 8 April 2024
- Madame Cackle and her media mates
- Open Thread – Weekend 27 July 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 25 July 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 22 July 2024
- All the drivel fit to print
Hilarious comment in the article about woke Harley. “Sturgis is on shortly”. “Who will be brave enough to man the…
Heh! I saw what you did there, Bob!
Startling indeed, Muddy. What brand was it? Target?
So long as they believe that Jesus is their saviour rites aren’t necessary. John 5:24 On the other hand rites…
Over on Dover’s Cope thread, where I believe he’s reached erroneous conclusions (but I’ll leave that aside) :-), the site enjoyed the presence of our Thought Leader (recently aka’ed Juan Peron, or simply Juan, in honor of his economic hero).
Juan suggested that the US went free trade under Ronald Reagan, which is really quite delusional.
He backed this up by suggesting that, because Milton Friedman was one of the administration’s economic advisors, Reagan ran with a free trade policy.
I’m posting Juan’s commentary here because, at times, I see some other people make similar suggestions. The back and forth is unfortunately nested, so people are unlikely to view it.
This is very far from the truth. While Reagan went pretty hard at deregulating the US economy, most of his focus was domestic policy, and in fact, Reagan was actually quite protectionist at the time.
Friedman’s influence carried through on the domestic front, and if he advised the administration on trade policy, it was all for naught.
This is a decent background on the Reagan administration’s actions on the trade front. The PDF is a good read.
….the Reagan administration has failed to promote free trade. Ronald Reagan by his actions has become the most protectionist president since Herbert Hoover, the heavyweight champion of protectionists.
Martin Hamilton-Smith of the SAS association:
We can’t build a barbeque, let alone a submarine. Our soldiers were not given due process by the defence hierarchy when allegations emerged about Afghanistan operations.
Too right!
Our SAS should be feared, not litigated. Give them the 007 license to kill if you want them to be effective. Otherwise nobody is going to sign up.
May be about to happen.
MK Illouz Introduces Bill to Annex Jordan Valley on Oct. 7, 2024 (7 Apr)
The message to Palis from the Knesset, including the Jordanian Palis is FAFO. This would constitute the FO bit.
How disgusting is this? They’ll have free rein to spy on anyone except members of Congress. Talk about looking after yourself at everyone else’s expense!
@RepThomasMassie
Congress gives itself a carve out in the reauthorization of FISA 702 warrantless spying on Americans.
The bill requires the FBI to notify and seek consent from Congress before violating the privacy of Congressmen.
This will persuade many members of Congress to vote yes.
Wanna bet that if it keeps on cooling they’ll switch over seamlessly to global cooling? They’ve already done it once. In the late ’80s when the scam really got going they were going to go with global cooling, until they noticed that it was actually getting warmer, so they switched over.
@catturd2
This was by far the coldest March I’ve ever seen here in North Florida in over 30 years – and it’s not even close. It’s still in the 40s most every morning. They act like we aren’t actually living on planet earth or something and will just believe their bullshit.
You couldn’t make this up. The resident expert on everything from battery technology to military strategy :
The “protectionist” Reagan, who both employed Milton Friedman as an advisor and said this:
What a protectionist. Full blown autarky, that Reagan.
Dr. John Campbell discussing a paper published in the Australian Journal of General Practitioners
Trickle of truth
Biden Shouts Incoherently When Interrupted by Heckler, Claims He’s Cut Deficit by $1T
Marles has bat crud.
Richard Marles staying at home after testing positive for COVID hours after press conference with Anthony Albanese (Sky News, 10 Apr)
I wonder how many times he and Albo have been vaccinated and boosterized?
Is he sick?
The current medical advice in QLD & I would expect elsewhere in Oz is if asymptomatic go about your business as usual.
Are we no longer heeding the experts? Heaven forefend!
The Juan Peron apologist replies.
1/ What Reagan said and what he did are two different things. As I suggested, people should read the PDF and determine if Reagan was a free trader or in fact a protectionist.
2/. While Friedman was an advisor on economic policy, he had no influence on trade policy.
Juan also suggested Friedman was in favor of open borders. Again, total crap. Friedman stated many times that open immigration and a welfare state were incompatible.
Rather than explain his faulty beliefs, he presents snarks and ill founded opinion backed by stupid assertions.
He blames Libertarians for free trade policy. Meanwhile, the two governments that dismantled a great deal of Australia and New Zealand’s tariff and quota walls were Labor governments.
Did Israel ever occupy Port Said?
I don’t think it did.
Wiki tells me Egypt evacuated the entire city in preparation for the 1973 war and allowed them to return afterwards.
Iron horse!
Escaped horse gallops into NSW train station (Sky News, 10 Apr)
Maybe she wanted to catch the train to Rosehill railway station to show solidarity with the bell frogs.
Reported plan to move Sydney’s Rosehill racecourse to endangered bell frog habitat surprises conservationists (Grauniad, 26 Mar)
Uh…
What he did, you effeminate buffoon, is employ Milton Friedman as economic advisor and propel the US on a course towards NAFTA and preferred trading status for China.
Unlike every previous Republican president throughout US history, who WERE unashamed protectionists.
Israel controlled the east bank of the Suez Canal, that would have incl. parts of Port Said, Suez City, and the like.
Unfortunate that this had to brought over to the OT.
China had GDP about the size of Vermont at the time, you clown. If only he had the vision of a self described mathematician and manufacturer.
Effeminate buffoon? What hair color for men is popular these days, Margaret?
Very easy to present an argument that he acted on free trade. Show the fcking evidence or fck off.
Go!
When I was young my father used to put me inside car tyres and roll me down a hill
They were good years !
It’s more of an open thread topic and not the cope thread, no?
Yes.
Effeminate buffoon.
Buffoons color their hair and do comb overs for bald spots.. Trump excepted of course.
A 66 y.o. Kingscliffe, NSW man has managed to inflict mortal stab wounds on a 29 y.o. intruder despite one of his arms being nearly severed by the axe wielding miscreant who was in company with another.
“We will be examining the circumstances surrounding the incident, in particular the conduct of the occupant and if his conduct was necessary and proportionate to the threat that was posed to him”, said NSW police.
The offenders and the homeowner were reportedly not known to each other.
FFS…if the facts are as reported and drugs are not involved give the man a medal for bravery.
After a few very tight times about 5-6 years ago, culminating in a rather large conflagration (Uncle Lionel swore it was only meant to be 1000 acres for a bit of roast roo, not the couple of million it turned into), the years have been very plentiful and the grain stores are over flowing.
Bald spots result from testosterone.
I’ll take your word on hair colour, never had use for any hair care other than running the number two clippers over the whole thing to satisfy Army.
Meanwhile, the two governments that dismantled a great deal of Australia and New Zealand’s tariff and quota walls were Labor governments.
Which begs the question why, since the liars are neither libertarians or free trade exponents.
The wrongology is actually fascinating.
Reagan had zero to do with NAFTA. Nothing, no course set and the sails were down.
No, Ronald Reagan did not initiate NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement). NAFTA was actually initiated by President George H.W. Bush. During his tenure, negotiations for NAFTA began, but it was under President Bill Clinton’s administration that the agreement was finalized and signed into law in 1993. Ronald Reagan served as President of the United States from 1981 to 1989, well before the negotiations for NAFTA began.
The comb over results from estrogen?
chrisl
April 10, 2024 6:47 pm
When I was young my father used to put me inside car tyres and roll me down a hill
They were good years !
—
Dragon:
Dragon – young years (1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUg1a6cwBGs
Wilson, FDR were Republicans, yeah?
Wilson, but more so FDR, imposed the largest and the most far reaching trade restrictions in US history. Both Republicans. 🙂
As Dot schooled you last evening, Libertarians are actually more conservative than most conservative parties.
A 66 y.o. Kingscliffe, NSW man has managed to inflict mortal stab wounds on a 29 y.o. intruder despite one of his arms being nearly severed by the axe wielding miscreant who was in company with another.
Proportionate would be getting a time machine tracking down his mum and punting her in the vadge till she was sterile.
Then, just to be sure, mulesing and elastratoring dad.
Was it proportionate should consist of “did the lump of shit deserve everything he got”?
This is how you belt the Nazis and Left Wing Nut Jobs –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_El_Alamein
An Allied Army of the Best of the West. Please come back.
Nice question beg, Cronkie. I was around at the time as a trader.
Particularly NZ, but Australia just a little less so. We were basically done for and fast becoming the Argentinas of the Pacific. Our currency reserves were running out and our protected industries were basket cases totally dependent on government protection. Living standards were dropping like a stone.
They had to float, or rather sink the two dollars and removing protection and even then consumer goods were less expensive.
Wilson, FDR were Republicans, yeah?
Err when?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt[a] (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He was a member of the Democratic Party
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt
Wilson, but more so FDR, imposed the largest and the most far reaching trade restrictions in US history. Both Republicans.
NO. FDR was NOT a Publican let alone a Republican. LOL
Hawke and Keating rescued Australian foreign currency reserves?
You utter clown.
Reserves fell during the Hawke government, the relevant year for the “reforms” being 1984:
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/Australia/reserves_monthly/
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Per capita the results were EVEN WORSE:
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2012/dec/7.html
Wilson, but more so FDR, imposed the largest and the most far reaching trade restrictions in US history. Both Republicans.
NO. FDR was NOT a Publican let alone a Republican. LOL
NOT another Typo from The Great One? FDR a Republican? FFS
That is so funny………………………
FDR and tariffs?
Are you prepared to be wrong YET AGAIN?
You should be used to it by now.
FDR, a Democrat, did indeed, as all Democrats do, reduce tariffs:
We had a few months supply of foreign reserves when the exchange rate was controlled by the RBA. Prior to the float reserves were literally collapsing and the headwind was getting stronger by the hour. The currency system at the time (fixed exchange rate) would have meant a zero balance in foreign currencies at an accelerating rate.
The float meant that transactions would take place between private buyers and sellers through intermediaries and there would be no need for the RBA to hold significant reserves.
Reserves fell during that period because the RBA was intervening to slow down the fall. Our terms of trade was deteriorating badly with a fall in commodity prices.
I can’t figure, why Archimedes would think this was an important topic to raise.
Excellent to see economics in the OT. Better than fishwife gossip about the legal cottage industry that has metastasised around Bruce Lehrmann.
Woddenhead, it was meant as a joke. Now go tend to the lady boy.
Digital ID – neither safe or effective
Dunno Dover apparently a census in 1967 put the north Sinai population at 33,000.
Even if it were another 50,000 Israel could have taken them on as citizens. My understanding is Israel traded land for peace, at least with Egypt they got it.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sinai
I’m happy to be wrong, but I’m not. It was a reciprocal trade authority and not the same thing as unilateral free trade, and after Smoot Hawley it was sorely needed seeing the US had the highest tariffs in US history.
Are you prepared to finally fess up and state Reagan did not enact free trade, or too busy with the comb?
Johnny Rotten
April 10, 2024 7:24 pm
This is how you belt the Nazis and Left Wing Nut Jobs –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_El_Alamein
An Allied Army of the Best of the West. Please come back.
And then the 8th Army which was a Commonwealth Army along with the Yanks went right up and did not hurt the Vatican/Rome (too much history and stolen money and jewels) belted the Krauts and went north into Northern Italy……How dare they.. And then they kept going to free Europe.
I’m happy to be wrong, but I’m not.
I bet that you are never happy OR to be wrong.
So was FDR a Democrat or not? He was. Get real. And own up. Otherwise, you have no integrity.
My claim:
You: But, but, but what about FDR?
Me: posts link to show FDR reduced tariffs.
You goal post shift: That’s not really free trade.
The reconstructed* Australian indigenous culture ONLY exists because it is profitable.
It is a form of trade that was gifted by non-indigenous Australians; an economic opportunity unavailable internally (within the indig. community/ies).
The opportunities available from this non-indigenous sponsorship (knowingly or otherwise), have been taken for granted, however. The broader interest in, and respect for, Australian indigenous history and culture, has become akin to paying a stranger to spit in your face. We, the non-indigenous, pay on several levels to submit to denigration, disrespect, and extortion. Our generosity – then and now – has, and is, being used against us.
I for one, am over it. It’s time to claim the non-indigenous ownership of indigenous ‘culture.’ We embraced you, but you urinated down our legs. You might not have any self-respect, but I used to. I want it back.
* I have no problems with elements of any culture being reconstructed, as long as everyone is honest about it. Every other culture in the history of human civilisation has been subject to ebb and flow, rise and fall, adapt or perish. As I wrote at some point recently, this reconstructed indigenous culture has ONLY been possible because of genuine European interest (during the early decades of the colonies, and now).
Juan reminded me of Smoot Hawley tariffs enacted in the early 30. People regard this action as one of the prime movers that caused the great depression. It was a diabolical action that Trump needs to be aware of if he gains office.
Woddenhead.
Of course FDR was a Republican. Go ask Socrates.
You: But, but, but what about FDR?
Me: posts link to show FDR reduced tariffs.
You goal post shift: That’s not really free trade.
I’m still waiting for the apology about Reagan.
You seem to have mislaid the West Bank.
Chris Bowen is lying about both nuclear (https://tedobrien.com.au/opinion-piece-10-reasons-bowen-is-wrong-on-nuclear/) and renewables (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0NKDozvO58). Both the CSIRO and AEMO have been drawn into his web of lies.
Actually, I muddied it up. I thought Smoot Hawley was enacted during FDR’s first couple of months and didn’t recall it was signed by Hoover in his fading term in office..
Smoot Hawley a huge increase in tariffs and quotas, helped make the Great Depression even worse.
Is the west bank in Egypt now?
Labor fears Muslim backlash at polls
By alexi demetriadi
and david tanner
Labor powerbrokers fear key western Sydney heartland seats with large Muslim populations are vulnerable to high-profile community independents running on pro-Palestine platforms, a key factor behind the ALP’s hardening stance against Israel.
The development comes as sources cited a multi-prong pressure push of Labor leaders waking up to a “moral” but also “political” imperative as key seats threatened to desert the party.
Israel’s actions across the past ten days, starting with the death of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom, had also given the party the reason and safety net to alter its stance and language.
Southwest Sydney seats with large pro-Palestine and Muslim voter bases that most concerned party figures include Jason Clare’s Blaxland, Tony Burke’s Watson and Anne Stanley’s Werriwa, as well as places like Parramatta, in western Sydney, and Wills, in Melbourne.
“The government has responded to recent events, and intense pressure both internally and externally,” said NSW Labor MP Anthony D’Adam, a key figure behind the NSW Labor Friends of Palestine.
“The moral case against Israel grows and the government is unable to continue ignoring it. (But) there is genuine concern that our position on the situation in Gaza threatens our hold on a range of southwest Sydney seats. This combination has forced the shift.”
The Oz cites the Labor Party as fearing a Mooslime backlash at the polls…..
Amazing!
Just spoke to a Telstra help call centre based out of Brisbane … Brisbane! Not in Asia.
Now I have wait 4 hours for the phone to become active.
To wait….
Arky
April 10, 2024 8:22 pm
My claim:
Really? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
The Big Problem in the Great Depression was they buggered it up. And Free Trade went out of the window, So, what did every other Country do?
What do you think they did? FFS
They did there own tariffs.
JC
April 10, 2024 8:27 pm
Woddenhead.
Of course FDR was a Republican. Go ask Socrates.
You are the Dope that got it wrong. Own Up or Fark off.
Wodney
Stay out of these discussions as you’re not mentally equipped for this sort of thing. Stick to pasting Marty spam and practicing pick pocketing skills, you s/limey crook.
Was this you, Rosie?
JC April 10, 2024 7:16 pm
Wilson, FDR were Republicans, yeah
This is your own stupid Quote. Own it or OR STFU In the meantime, I am laughing at you. Along with lots of others here.
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You know when someone is a no hoper when their only argument is the example given in every first year text on why “protectionism bad”, and they f*ck even that up.
JC
April 10, 2024 9:03 pm
Wodney
Stay out of these discussions as you’re not mentally equipped for this sort of thing. Stick to pasting Marty spam and practicing pick pocketing skills, you s/limey crook.
It is so easy playing with you as you are no KC and have no evidence whatsoever. And you have been repeatedly ARSEked. You must be a Gooner. LOL.
Please see above about FDR. Live and learn. Dipstick.
NT police caught with ‘black Monopoly’ – only option is go to jail
By liam mendes
A “racist” email depicting a “black Monopoly” Indigenous board game where every property on the board is the “go to jail” square has resurfaced after first circulating through members of the Northern Territory Police in 2008.
Screenshots of the leaked email, which has been doing the rounds across the NT Police force, has raised questions about the veracity of officers who have sworn affidavits claiming they had never witnessed racism within the force. It comes as a NT Police review, handed down on Tuesday, found Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal staff in Darwin “reported experiencing or observing racism and poor treatment of staff and community members at various times”. The review recommended “refresher training” for all staff.
I’m pretty sure even Juan understood it was meant as a sarc, which is why he never came at me. However, you’re the only individual here who would attempt to peddle a sarc comment and try to make hay out it. And you act offended when I and others refer to you as a lowrent limey crook. Now fck off as you’re wasting everyone’s time.
You have a point? There was a general assertion that Israel didn’t absorb all these locations because they didn’t want to grant citizenship, I just made the point that in sparsely populated Sinai it would have hardly made a difference. The Bedouin actually benefited from the Israeli occupation with employment, infrastructure building and access to medical care etc.
Incidentally Egyptians have done a fair bit of ‘ethnic cleansing’ since they took over in 1982.
And you do know there are over two million Arabs and Bedouin living in Israel?
West bank was controlled Jordan, an entirely separate country to Egypt
This all stemmed from the ‘Israelis had a plan in 49 to take over.’
As though no other country with hostile neighbours had never wargamed what they might do in this or that circumstance.
What Israel would have done with Sinai would be turn it into something fertile and useful like they did with Israel.
A bit more than wargames. They actually did it.
m0nty
April 10, 2024 8:06 pm
Translation:-
Bruce looks like winning big, so we now have to find a way of walking back three years of hysterical wailing based on a fabricated tale spun by a conniving tart.
Woddenhead, it was meant as a joke. Now go tend to the lady boy.
You would not know a joke unless someone blew up your arse with a big FAT balloon…………lol
LOL. Now, here you are with the Woodentops –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ckksjo6zI8&t=2s
And Mummy Woodentop says get back from the Fat Pizza Bar and get real. LOL.
Apparently this is a meme that has been circulating the wider interwebs, including those of other countries for year prior to that.
I have heard it said that this meme is also tinged with sarcasm, insofar as the hurdles it takes – considering the multitude of Koori courts and so on – to have an indig person actually incarcerated are significant, particularly when compared to poor old whitey.
Anyway, “Sliante.”
Reading “A First Rate Madness” by Nassir Ghaemi.
Seems Adolph Hitler had relatively severe bipolar disorder, for which his physician was administering opiates, barbiturates and amphetamines – the amphetamines both orally and intravenously…
*For years prior to that*
JC
April 10, 2024 9:25 pm
I’m pretty sure even Juan understood it was meant as a sarc, which is why he never came at me.
Bull Shite. What a T,W,A,T you are – But I came at you –
Get Farked and you are so Farked up. You are a right Wanker and Dipstick if you don’t own up to a mistake. You LOOSER.
This comment is a perfect illustration of why I have as much respect for you as I do for Woddenhead. Even though I made a mistake in not recalling that Smoot Hawley was signed by Hoover in 1930, thinking it was FDR, it presents a great example of why closing the economy to trade is terrible, seeing as it helped make the Great Depression much worse.
Conversely, as trade liberalization opened up after the war, living standards began to rise, particularly in the beaten-down countries in Europe.
When there was even more trade liberalization after the Cold War, something like 1.5 billion people came out of grinding poverty. Meanwhile, we have a hectoring, likely depressed former school teacher lecturing us that international trade is possibly the worst thing for humanity since the Ice Age.
Those megatrends aren’t a tell for you. You just want to see things like car manufacturing brought back to Australia, helped by tariff walls and quotas.
Let’s count your list of wrongolgies.
There’s plenty more from last evening’s extravaganza, but I can’t really be bothered finding them.
This, from the loud elderly Pom who berates others for a perceived lack if English skills:
Next up from the ladyboy fancier:
‘I was invitted to this countery’
‘Socka is awesome’
‘I was a part time bover boy so shut up’
‘I would like to have an orgey this weekend’
The pile up of utter stupidity so far:
Your history recite is bullshit. They floated the Australian dollar in Dec 1983 at which time we were on a flxed/floating regime that was disastrous. The devaluation in early 83 saw a dive in foreign reserves which is why they devalued by 30%. Overnight interest rates were at 300% the evening prior to the devaluation.
Suggesting 83 was calm is like you would be saying Smoot Hawley was the greatest idea in US history and would cause a giant spike in economic growth.
From immigrantinvest:
And reduce the quality of life for everyone in their adopted home.
In a desperate hope to reduce those countries to the drizzling, grey kipper-infested peat bogs they’re used to.
PS 300% interest rates were seen in the short term currency forward markets for overnight rollovers. From memory, overnight cash in the unofficial market was about 60%. For the banks, I don’t know.
Outright lie. Never said anything of the sort. I said that I paid to have all my vaxes. “Free” and subsidized have never meant the same thing and I never said anything suggesting that.
Reagan hired Milt for economic advice. The fact that Milt was a free trader and Reagan ran a protectionist trade policy meant Reagan only listened to Milt on domestic policy, which he did.
Yep, Got me there, except Smoot Hawley was one of the main disasters that caused the Great Depression. You would have heartily supported Smoot Hawley.
Yep, if they didn’t devalue and eventually float, we would have had to have gone to the IMF for loans.
And still can’t cope with the fact that Reagan was a protectionist. I know, for a egocentric doofus, it’s hard to admit you’re wrong. Try deep breathing exercises.
Seriously, you’d do well ghosting for Marty.
KD
You’ve brought up orgies with respect to the Ladyboy aficionado. Can you elaborate as I never saw what imbecile said about this.
No kidding Juan. You’re doubting there was a drain in currency reserves. You’re a mathematician of world renown, so what do you think happens in a lead up to a currency devaluation when there’s a fixed exchange rate?
Pick one.
There was some discussion on the OT a few weeks back on what people were doing on the weekend.
The elderly knotted-hankie wearer then announced that ‘an orgy was a wonderful idea’.
He didn’t specify how many ladyboys would be involved, nor how much amyl nitrite was required.
It’s true because every time I mention it he pulls his head in or reverts to Benny Hill jokes as a distraction.
Hahahaha
So it’s confirmed, Wodney’s gay. Not that there’s anything wrong with that in this day and age.
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Supply a reference to your 30% figure.
Go!
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What do you think happens before an election with the high probability of electing a Labor government?
What do you think happens when the punters are expecting the currency to float?
Do you think your answers to these questions might explain the inflows and outflows somewhat?
@bennyjohnson
Of course he won. He’s Australian!
The beauty is, a boat load of Aussie cars are on their way over to compete.
It is going to be epic. Andrew Lynch is champing at the bit.
Things are starting to get SERIOUS! Cleetus Burnout Rivals!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g35UNbVf6Y
You tried to refute the idea that the vaccines are subsidised by stating you paid for it. Thus, yes, LITERALLY in the precise meaning of the words in front of you, you did indeed say something suggesting exactly that. Either that or you are in the habit of making random non sequitors.
Give up the reference to the 30% devaluation. Or is that someth8ng else you fked up?
Correction:
I think the devaluation in the early part of 1983 was 10% and not 30%
What’s random is your stupidity. If I paid for the vax , which I did, because I was told I was under the age where it was granted for free, how would I have received a subsidized vax? Furthermore, how does that suggest I don’t know the difference between a subsidy and something that’s free? What a stupidly lame argument.
You’re unable to make any logical conclusive argument to support your stupid views and you then try to burrow underneath to somehow suggest someone doesn’t understand a point or they’re lying.
Now answer my questions and the multiple choice above.
Go!
So you tripled the severity of the problem to make your case.
This is hilarious. You steer the conversation to your one solitary area of actual expertise and you still can’t get anything right.
Former Channel Seven Sunrise and Olympics reporter Nathan Templeton dies at 44
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-10/former-seven-sunrise-olympics-reporter-nathan-templeton-dies/103692554?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other
A medical edisode whilst walking his dog. Totally normal, happens all the time. Happening all the time. And it has always happened – don’t forget!
The pile up of utter stupidity so far:
”Free” and “subsidised” mean the same thing so the vaccines weren’t really subsidised, because I really like me some of dat jabby jabby.Reagan wasn’t in favour of free trade and only employed Milton Friedman because he liked his sweet chubby face.FDR never cut tariffs, until he did, and then he really didn’t mean it or something.Australia was about to lose all its foreign reserves until Hawke and Keating saved us, Reagan was a two faced liar, saying he was for free trade while actually being a protectionist. Don’t, whatever you do, look at the trade agreements he signed reducing tariffs. That doesn’t count because see excuse, I mean point 3 aboveUpdate:
The 1983 devaluation was 30%! Oopsy! I mean only 10%
This is crazy talk. In hindsight, Israel annexing the West Bank and Gaza in 1967 was a strategic catastrophe. I mean, fine, boot the Jordanians out of Jerusalem but let them take care of the rest. Same with Egypt. Prior to, there was no need for a two state solution. Now they’re Israel’s problem AND both a one and a two state solution are unicorns.
I hate to say it, but I am starting to think that I may outlive the state of Israel. Now I’m not that old but I’m not that young, either.
You really need to stop the mind reading, as it shows what a bullshit artist you are. It occurred several decades ago, and I went with my initial thought. Still, it was in the right direction, so it doesn’t change a thing in terms of what else I said.
Pedants always find the tiniest details hilarious.
Expertise doesn’t mean I recall things (exactly) that occurred so long ago. I bet you don’t. It was 41 years ago and I was then a young whippersnapper.
Here’s the thing, though: the direction was correct, what I said was correct, and only the degree was incorrect. This is identical to the Smoot Hawley part of the discussion, where I incorrectly named the president who signed it into law. Again, you tried to make out the timing being wrong was like you had struck gold. Then, when it was presented to you that Smoot Hawley was one of the main drivers of the early part of the Great Depression, you tried to change the subject. This is why it’s worthless to have any discussion with you.
Moreover, being the egoistical imbecile that you are and have always been, you came out earlier stating that Reagan actioned policies in favor of free trade, but as the link I provided shows, the opposite is true. What is the response… Oh you said vaxes are free.
Brave man, mathematician . Still can’t admit Reagan ran with protectionist policies.
Hey look, there’s Friedman walking around the West Wing.
New OT up.
Hilarious levels of stupidity.
Pathetic, really.
Analogies can be based on reality or hypotheticals, dipstick.
Firstly, I’ve explained why your analogy was stupid, and secondly, you have about a dozen or so questions I’ve left for you that remain answered. Let me know when you’ve worked through them before I answer any of your bullshit. In any event, I did answer your stupid question, but you were possibly too drunk to realize.
As I suggested, reverse your analogy. The drinker is a violent drunk who trashes the house in his drunken binges, while the other does coke once a week.
Obviously, you’d choose the violent drunk.
As Dot nicely explained to you, alcohol is far more problematic than most drugs.
You’re too cognitively impaired to realize that not all drug users are dysfunctional, just like not all drinkers are dysfunctional alcoholics.
Lastly, claiming Duterte did a fine job is off-the-charts loonbin material and ethically + morally you should be walking that back.
Yep, alcohol is no problem at all. Totally fine.
During Covid.
Let’s murder all those connected with alcohol sales just like the D man in the Philippines. Makes sense.
You really are monumentally stupid.
An analogy compares different things.
The topic was drugs and alcohol.
The hypothetical example used drugs and alcohol.
There was no analogy you fool. It was a hypothetical example of precisely the same things discussed.
NOT AN ANALOGY.
Why don’t you two idiots 3D print yourselves an EM-Drive and f*ck off to Alpha Centauri?
Along the way you can discuss why Reagan described himself as a libertarian and why a president might be unable to enact every trade policy he wants with a protectionist congress.
At least Dot will have some feminine company on the trip.
Morons.
Had a monumental fail today. All my fault. I got impatient and tried to skip ahead into a right turn lane and BANG! … My left font end got mangled into a 8T flatbed.
1cm out.
No damage to the truck.
The driver said, what did you do?
I f*cked up.
Tickler
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